As sea levels rise and wildfires burn, Only Expansion remixes the sound of the city around you to experience sonically how your own life might change in the future.

A beautifully made guidebook prompts you to explore the city, choosing your own route, while headphones with customised electronics capture and manipulate the sounds around you.

Field recordings of climate collapse blend into your surroundings, you begin to hear your city as if it was under water or beaten by dry desert winds. A visceral and poetic reflection on what it means to live on a planet in crisis, Only Expansion connects the here to the elsewhere, letting you experience our tangled ecology through sound.

Winner - London Film Festival Best Immersive and XR Award
Winner - International Documentary Festival Amsterdam - Special Jury Award for Immersive Non-fiction

Credits 

Created by: Duncan Speakman

Music: Sarah Anderson and Duncan Speakman

Book Design: Tom Abba

Technical support: Steve Symons

Production assistant: Will Taylor

Lasercut design: Fiona Dowling

Only Expansion was developed with support from Theatre in The Mill Bradford, University of Exeter Arts And Culture, Lydgalleriet Bergen,, and Arts Council National Lottery Project Grants.